At the tail end of this Michael Cera/Sundance article, THR notes some films that might appear at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009.
They include: a raunchy Ashton Kutcher’s comedy called, “Spread,” (Anne Heche appears to be the female love interest) a ’60s coming-of-age story titled “An Education” starring Emma Thompson, Rosamund Pike and Peter Sarsgaard, Shana Feste’s lost-child drama “The Greatest” (Pierce Brosnan with Susan Sarandon) and Antoine Fuqua’s cop drama “Brooklyn’s Finest” that stars Jesse Williams, Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke and Lili Taylor The documentary side will likely showcase Nicholas Kristof ‘s “Reporter,” R.J. Cutler’s doc on Vogue editor Anna Wintour and a youth politics flick called, “The Youngest Candidate.”
Also expected to appear is the Jim Carrey/Ewan McGregor gay comedy “I Love You Phillip Morris” (remember when McGregor was great and had a career? Sigh, those were the days…, now he’s reduced to this.)
And now you know why we’ll be staying at home…then again, last year’s initial line-up was underwhelming [ed.then again, last year’s full line-up was underwhelming and you get people saying ok films like “American Teen” and “Choke” are one of their favorite films of the year. Really?]. Sundance runs January 15-25 in gay-loathing Mormon country, Utah. Some animated film that doesn’t interest us is opening up the fest.
Every film we saw at the Woodstock film festival from Sundance was terrible.
Black Dynamite is coming to Sundance too. It actually says so in the Green Band trailer.
Where’d you find that? All I can find is the red band.
Red Band what?
Whoa, whoa, really?! You REALLY think Sundance is that horrible?! You’ve got to be kidding me!
I admit that last year maybe wasn’t great, but there was a handful of incredible films – and I’m not talking about Choke! Assassination of a High School President, American Teen, The Wackness, In Bruges, Smart People, Funny Games, and so many more! I’m surprised you couldn’t find ONE great movie at Sundance…
Now moving on to THIS year – I haven’t heard of a single one you’ve mentioned so far. I have been hoping Sam Rockwell’s Moon, Greg Motolla’s Adventureland, Zooey Deschanel’s 500 Days of Summer, and maybe even Duplicity might all be there, too… This year is actually looking VERY good! I would hope you might actually attend. And if you need a place to stay, let me know, we’ve got some room in our condo… 🙂
I’m not saying there wasn’t one great gem at Sundance, there was at least two: Ballast and Anvil! The Story Of Anvil, i’m just saying most of what you mentioned was just ok and largely overrated, IMO (and there were prolly more, those two come to mind offhand).
I saw your 500 Days Of Summer post and i do want to see it. Adventureland would be awesome. Not sure i have interest in Moon.
But i guess I’m saying there was a lot of stuff that sounded good, but wasn’t (Visioneers and The Great Buck Howard being too recent examples; the latter being painfully mediocre).
Speaking of Sundance: Not only am i the only person on earth who saw The Go-Getter, but i think i’m the only that can admit i loved it (a LOT of people thought it was paint-by-numbers indie quirk, which in itself is becoming a loathsome genre).
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi60883737/
Whoa – I am one of the OTHER few (in addition to Peter of /Film) who LOVED The Go-Getter! Isn’t it out on DVD soon?? Anyway, I agree with you there – that is a highly underrated film that I discovered at the end of Sundance two years ago. It got its ass kicked by negative opinions and subsequently buried in its release. Hardly anyone knows this movie exists, but I am one of the few who LOVED it, too! So you’re not alone my friend!
You can get it at Blockbuster. It’s been an exclusive there for months now.